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Delegitimizing the DelegitimizersThursday, May 30, 2013 by Anne Bayefsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
"The poisonous role of the UN human rights world in demonizing and isolating Israel cannot be overestimated"; but it can be combated.The World’s Oldest Torah Scroll
A Torah scroll discovered in a Bologna archive was originally misidentified as a 17th-century manuscript; its true date has now been established as five centuries earlier.Israel’s Talmudic Turn
Thursday, May 30, 2013 by Sid Slivko | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Educators reaching out to young secular Israelis in the hope of introducing them to the Talmud have discovered a willing audience.Kindertransport Remembered
Thursday, May 30, 2013 by Lucy Ward | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
This year, Britain marks the 75th anniversary of a mass evacuation of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Europe.Renaissance in Budapest
Thursday, May 30, 2013 by Andrew Connelly and Helene Bienvenu | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The anti-Semitic demagoguery peddled by Hungary's fascist Jobbik party has prompted fresh Jewish cultural and political engagement.
Orthosexuality
Addressing a trend toward greater openness about sexuality in the Modern Orthodox community, Elli Fischer reminds us, in an article first published December 19, 2011, that Judaism has never treated sex as a taboo subject.
Bordering on CollapseWednesday, May 29, 2013 by Elli Fischer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Addressing a trend toward greater openness about sexuality in the Modern Orthodox community, Elli Fischer reminds us, in an article first published December 19, 2011, that Judaism has never treated sex as a taboo subject.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 by Dore Gold | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
As a result of the Syrian civil war, Middle East borders that have lasted since the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 are on the verge of erasure—and the vultures are already circling.Sh’lah L’kha: Send Yourself
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 by Torah Talk with Michael Carasik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Weekly Portions
"Send men to scout the land"—and the mysterious word that's missing from that translation. (Click here for source sheet.) Download